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After a few last words with his partner, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet gets into the car that will take him and his three crewmates to the Crew Dragon. The capsule is due to liftoff at 09:49 GMT for the International Space Station (ISS). IMAGES
A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station. French President Emmanuel Macron watched the capsule landing live. IMAGES
"All the ground teams really across the world made it easy on us to live and work onboard the ISS," astronaut Thomas Pesquet says during a change of command ceremony aboard the International Space Station. SOUNDBITE
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough perform their second spacewalk on the International Space Station, as part of the Alpha mission, to continue the installation of a solar array outside the station. IMAGES
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough work in the weightlessness of space to install a new solar panel on the International Space Station, a complex and very physical operation that is expected to last about six and a half hours. IMAGES
The SpaceX crew prepares for the launch of the rocket to the ISS, set to be the third time SpaceX will send humans to the International Space Station early Friday, reusing a rocket and crew capsule in a human mission for the first time. The Crew-2 mission blasts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 am Eastern Time (0949 GMT), after being delayed a day by adverse weather along the flight path. IMAGES